Improved cabinet



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

ROBERT BACON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH LINCOLN, JR., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED CABINET.l

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 99,746, dated February l5, 1870.

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT BAooN,of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, assignor to himself and JOSEPH LINCOLN, Jr., have invented a certain Improvement in Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Objects of the litre/dion.

The nature of my invention consists in combining together in asingle article of furniture several devices, by means of which the article will serve several uses and be very compact and convenient.

Drawings.

Figure l is a perspective view of my invention, showing it as it appears when not 'in use.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of invention as it appears when used asan ironingtable.

Figure 3 is a perspective View of my inven-v tion as it appears when used as a pastry-table.

General Description- In Engl Ihave represented mycabinet closed, with the large board K turned back and slid downto the position that it occupies When not in use.

A B A' B ,and C D and C D' are drawers, which may be made after any suitable plan; or, if desirable, one section of drawers may be y omitted, and a swinging platform substituted for holding a 0ur-barrel.

H and H are shelves hung at each end of the cabinet, and are supported by swinging brackets when open, as shown in iig. 3.

H2, iig. 3, shows one of these swinging brackets.

The'large board K when in the position represented in fig. 2, is used for an ironingtable or cutting-board.

The board K, is provided with two pivots, one of which is shown at L, fig. 3; these piv ots serve as hinges and also as starts to slide in the grooves formed in each end of the cabinet, one of which is shown at M, g. 3, and

are so arranged in connection with these grooves that when the board K is turned up toa vertical position it isA free to slide down behind the cabinet, as shown in figs. l and 3.

N, tig. l, is a small hook attached to the board K, and, fitting into a recess in the rear` part of the cabinet, serves to hold the board in position.

In g. 3, I have shown the cover O E open, A

as the cabinet appears when used as a pastrytable;

P being a slab of marble, which is used for a pastry-board;

R and R being rolling-pins.

When my invention is to be used asa dressmakers work cabinet, aseWing-nlachine may 'occupy the place ot' the pastry-board P; 

